Zac, raised in a home with narcissistic parents, runs from having shot and wounded his father.

"Using" (destructively narcissistic parents who rule by fear and conditional love)

The book speaks to the high-achieving children of narcissistic parents, who can lose track of their own desires while striving to please.

Narcissistic parent are parents affected by narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder.

In the face of this independence, the narcissistic parent "may experience a sense of loss, the child having served as an important source of self-esteem."

"These traits will lead overly narcissistic parents to be very intrusive in some ways, and entirely neglectful in others.

It originally referred specifically to abuse by narcissistic parents of their children, but more recently has come to mean any abuse by a narcissist.

Typically narcissistic parents are exclusively and possessively close to their children and may be especially envious of their child's growing independence.

When parents need their child to seem perfect, as often happens with narcissistic parents, the child encounters barriers to expressing separateness and establishing an individual identity.

"Narcissistic parents give rise to either narcissistic or codependent offspring because [of] their inability to engage emotionally with their children's needs."

The entire Lohan clan must be so proud...an anorexic and a parolee in one big happy family tied together with narcissistic parents who have screwed up their kids lives.

Vaknin considered that "the narcissistic parent regards his or her child as a multifaceted Source of Narcissistic Supply... as an extension of the narcissist."

Brown, Nina W. Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting over Narcissistic Parents (2008)

Narcissistic parents "demand certain behavior from their children because they see the children as extensions of themselves and need the children to represent them in the world in ways that meet the parents' emotional needs."

Miller A The Drama of the Gifted Child, How Narcissistic Parents Form and Deform the Emotional Lives of their Talented Children (1981)

Vaknin considered that "the inverted narcissist is a person who grew up enthralled by the narcissistic parent ... the child becomes a masterful provider of Narcissistic Supply, a perfect match to the parent's personality."

Narcissistic parents likely went through some form of emotional or psychological neglect in their own childhoods, thus may find it difficult to place their children's needs and interests ahead of their own desire to feel in control.

In extension, children of narcissists typically do not have many memories of having felt loved or appreciated for being themselves, but rather associate their experience of love and appreciation with conforming to the demands of the narcissistic parent.

Miller used "narcassistic abuse" to refer to a specific form of emotional abuse of children by what she considered narcissistic parents - parents who require the child to give up their own wants and feelings in order to serve the parent's needs for esteem, which constitutes narcissistic abuse.

Gardner, F 'To Enliven Her Was My Living':Thoughts On Compliance And Sacrifice As Consequences Of Malignant Identification With A Narcissistic Parent British journal of psychotherapy Volume 21 Issue 1, Pages 49 - 62 (2006)